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How to Evaluate the Sharing Effects of Open Educational Resource Projects: An Openness Maturity Analysis Framework

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Open educational resources (OERs) play an important role in promoting balanced development of education. For this reason, a great number of OERs projects have been carried out around the world. However, how to evaluate the sharing effects of OER Project is still a problem. In this chapter, a framework of openness maturity of OERs projects is introduced. The chapter first reviews the development process and typical projects of OERs, and then analyzes the driving mode of OERs development and promotion approaches of OER transmission. The characteristics of OERs are usability, reachability, scalability, and stickiness. Based on this, a framework of openness maturity of OERs projects, which provides a framework for analyzing the promotion and circulation of OERs, is proposed.

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  1. Faculty of Educaiton, Beijing Normal University, No. 19, XinJieKouWai St., HaiDian District, 100875, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Ronghuai Huang & Xiaolin Liu

  2. Faculty of Educaiton, Jiangsu Normal University, No. 101, Shanghai St., Tongshan District, 221116, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Proviance, People’s Republic of China

    Yongbin Hu

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Huang, R., Hu, Y., Liu, X. (2017). How to Evaluate the Sharing Effects of Open Educational Resource Projects: An Openness Maturity Analysis Framework. In: Jemni, M., Kinshuk, Khribi, M. (eds) Open Education: from OERs to MOOCs. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52925-6_8

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